OAKHAM FESTIVAL 2008

 

                                             Tickets available from 2nd May from the Art Shop, High Street, Oakham                                         
June 13th to June 29th

film THEATRE

street theatre

COMEDY dance QUIZ talks

POETRY

  music

WORKSHOPS

art

GALA NIGHT

carnival & fayres


Festival Information
 
Festival Information

 

 Date

Act

Venue

Price

Time

Friday 13th June

Festival Launch with Abi Moore

Castle

Free

6.00pm

 

Cinema at the castle

West Side Story

Castle

£6.00 (adv)

£7.00 (door)

9.30pm

 

Bridget Hardy at the Chapel

Oakham School Chapel

£6.00

 7.30pm

 

Flower Festival

Methodist Church

Free

 12.30pm – 5.00pm

 

Blue Juice at Nick's

Nick's Restaurant

Free

7.00pm

 Saturday 14th June

The Westenders bring Songs from the Shows

Outside stage at the Castle

 £15.00 (adv) £17.00 (door)

 8.00pm

 

Street Theatre & Craft Fair

Mill St & around Oakham

 Free

 

 

Flower Festival

Methodist Church

 Free

 12.30pm – 5.00pm

 

The Mystic Harmony

Music & Images with Richard Adams

Methodist Church

 £3.00

7.30pm

Sunday 15th June

Rutland Synfonia Prom

Castle  

 £9.00 (adv)

£10.00 (door)

 6.30pm

 

Battle of the Bands

Outside stage at the Castle

 Free

 12md  to 4.00pm

 

Flower Festival

Methodist Church

 Free

 12.30pm – 5.00pm

 

Stan Stanley - Comedian

Merry Monk

Free

 8.00pm

Monday 16th June

Morcott Youth Theatre present,

Needle in a haystack

Castle

£5.00

7.30pm

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday 17th June

Ensemble 360 present Dirty Beasts

Oakham School Chapel

 £2.00

1.30pm

 

Professional Concert given by Ensemble 360

[part of our Music in the Round series]

Schubert - Trochne Blumen Variations

Howells - Rhapsodic Quintet

Schubert - Octet

Oakham School Chapel

£12.00/£6.00

7.30pm

 

Sophie Hannah - Crime Writer

Castle

 £3.00/£2.00

7.30pm

Wednesday 18th June

Lunchtime Concert: Oakham School Chamber Choir

All Saints' Church

 Free

 1.30pm

 

 Paul Leegan

Wheatsheaf

 £17.50 (inc food)

7.30pm

 

 Concert with Fraser Graham

All Saints Church

 £7.50

7.30pm

Thursday 19th June

André Mangeot - Poetry

 Castle

 £5.00

7.30pm

 

Riding Hard - Country and Western

 Merry Monk

 £2.00 on door

 8.30pm

Friday 20th June

Festival Orchestral Concert ,

Elgar - Romance for Bassoon & Orchestra,

Schumann - Symphony No. 4,

Walton - Suite: Henry V

Strauss - Morgen

Oakham School Chapel

 £6.00

 7.30pm

 

 Rutland's Got Talent Competition

Rutland College Library

 £2.00

 7.30pm

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 21st June

Short Story Writing

Museum

 

2.30pm

 

Lars Tharp

Museum

 

 

 

Rutland Choral Society Concert

Methodist Church

£5.00

Child (U16) free

4.00pm

 

Honk - Oakham Lower School Production

QET

 Free (tickets required)

 7.45pm

 

Jive Night Workshop

Victoria Hall

Free

2-4 pm

 

 Jive Night with One Eyed Cats

Victoria Hall

 £15.00

 8.00pm

 

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Community Cast plus Oakham School pupils

QET 

 £5.00

 10.15pm

Sunday 22nd June

Honk - Oakham Lower School Production

QET

 Free (tickets required)

 7.45pm

 

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Community Cast plus Oakham School pupils

QET 

 £5.00

 10.15pm

Monday 23rd June

Honk - Oakham Lower School Production

QET

 Free (tickets required)

 7.45pm

 

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Community Cast plus Oakham School pupils

QET 

 £5.00

 10.15pm

Tuesday 24th June

Honk - Oakham Lower School Production

QET

 Free (tickets required)

 7.45pm

 

Stool Pigeon

Wheatsheaf

 £10.00

7.30pm

 

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

Community Cast plus Oakham School pupils

QET 

 £5.00

 10.15pm

Wednesday 25th June

Lunchtime concert: Soraya Vermeulen (harp)

All Saints

 Free

 1.30pm

 

Big Band Bonanza

Marquee

 £10.00

 7.30pm

 

Jeremy Hardy

Victoria hall

 £20.00

Book 10 pay for 9

 8.00pm

Thursday 26th June 

Karaoke

Merry Monk

 Free

 7.30pm

 

 

 

 

 

Friday 27th June

J'Oakham with Alexis Dubus, compare

Zoe Lyons and Mark Maier

 Victoria Hall

£6.00

 8.00pm

 

Aston & Davies

Castle

 £8.00

7.30pm

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 28th June

Oakham Choral Society Concert

Music for a summers evening 

Oakham School Chapel

£8.00/£5.00

7.30pm

 

Ceilidh

Victoria Hall  

 £6.00

 8.00pm

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday 29th June

Pica Pica

 Rutland Belle

£12.00

 7.00pm

 

Carnival

 

 Free

 1.00pm to 5.00pm